Re: multi-national character sets?

>>>>> "LB" == Louis Bertrand <louis(at)bertrandtech(dot)on(dot)ca> writes:

LB> Hello all,
LB> I'm looking for a few good pointers to docs on how to handle multinational
LB> character sets (European exclusively) with PostgreSQL and PHP for a
LB> web database application. Currently using PHP 3.0.16 and PostgreSQL 6.5.2
LB> but I can upgrade if that helps.

LB> I see in the docs that you can compile in multi-byte support, but I have
LB> no idea how that works, for comparisons with LIKE or regexps, as well as
LB> for sorting with ORDER BY. Do "c" and "c-cedille" or "e" and "e-aigu" end
LB> up together or do I need to handle that programmatically?

LB> I don't mind doing the homework, but I'm hoping somebody on this list can
LB> point me in the right direction.

See doc/README.mb and doc/README.locale files in the distribution
set.

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